Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The cigarette became synonymous with male and female sexual desirability. But keep in your mind, before cigarettes kill you, they will first kill your sex life. Cigarettes can be just as fatal to your sex life due to the components found in the smoke itself, and especially the active ingredient nicotine and its effects on blood flow.

You need to understand that tobacco is harmful for sexual health in the medium term. However, we now know that numerous substances contained within smoke may also exert a more immediate effect, leading to a significant reduction in erectile capacity after just one cigarette. Furthermore, smoking can also negatively affect fertility, promote certain sexual diseases and lead to an early menopause.

Smoking makes it harder to get and maintain an erection because it releases adrenaline and other stimulating compounds that clamp down on the flow of blood to the penis. Less blood means weaker erections and erections more likely to fail. (Maybe that's why people often smoke after making love -- doing so beforehand can put a damper on things.) In studies of erectile dysfunction, smoking consistently ranks as one of the biggest modifiable risk factors.

Smoking may also hurt a man's ability to father children. Several studies show that men who smoke have lower sperm counts, on average, and their sperm are somewhat more likely to be abnormally shaped. Both of these factors lower a man's fertility; so if you're trying to have kids, try to kick the habit first.

For women, smoking can cause a variety of sex-related problems, ‘ Smoking can cause early menopause, increase the risk of cervical cancer, causes menstrual irregularities and also greatly increase the chance of a stroke or heart attack in women over 35 who’re taking the oral contraceptive pill.’

The major problems caused by smoking in women are related to infertility and pregnancy. It can reduce fertility by damaging their fallopian tubes by causing blockages which prevent the egg and sperm from meeting. It also damages the eggs as they develop in the ovaries. Women who smoke during pregnancy are also more likely to increase the risk of suffering a miscarriage, damage their eggs and the developing foetus. Studies have also found that smoking can cause earlier menopause.

Along with this, studies have shown that smokers’ babies are likelier to suffer from various other conditions. They are far likelier to be obese in later childhood or adulthood, likelier to have asthma and suffer from heart defects and other cardiovascular ailments.

Considering the negative impact that smoking has on sexual function. This can be an important motivator for those who wish to stop smoking and regain a functional and fulfilling sex life.